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Zinc is one of the minerals that can help hold off the onset of dementia or Alzheimer’s. In most studies, zinc has been shown to improve mental capacity in elders. And most older people and those with dementia and other mental disorders have been found to be deficient in zinc. One of the reasons for this […]

Technique Helps Distinguish Alzheimer’s From Other Types of Dementia The use of a brain imaging technique that measures sugar metabolism within a critical area of the brain could play an important role in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. According to Dr. Lisa Mosconi and her colleague Mony De Leon, both of […]

Older people sometimes develop dementia, a somewhat common condition that results in mental and emotional confusion. Some of these people, particularly those who are institutionalized, often display anger outbursts in reaction to relatively mild provocations, such as an unwanted meal item. At other times the anger is warranted, such as when another resident initiates a […]

Vitamin C and Vitamin E are both antioxidants that are believed to play certain very important roles in our bodies. Very similar to one another, both vitamins help prevent free radical damage to our brains. It is believed that free radicals can cause damage to cell structures and other genetic material. The damage free radicals […]

Dementia is the progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Particularly affected areas may be memory, attention, language, and problem-solving, although particularly in the later stages of the condition, affected persons may be disoriented in time, not knowing what day, week, […]

Depending on what you read, the human heart and the human mind are either considered to be inextricably linked or distinct and separate entities. But for the most part, medical science has tended to look at the connection between the two with a bias towards the latter: that is, the two are connected only in […]